I WILL SING SING SING

a week and one day ago, i was down in DC with 3000 other college/univ students in the Patriot Center @ George Mason University praising and worshiping God. i think its safe to say that none of us wanted to leave that atmosphere. we just wanted to keep going thru the night and worship thru song (and dance... or bounce :D). i couldnt care less if it was chris tomlin, matt redman, charlie hall, or anyone else from the crowd could've jumped on stage and led the worship. or even acappella! i just wanted to keep singing! SING SING SING! and no, it wasnt just the last 'send off' session, but for all 4 sessions. we didnt want the praising and worshiping to stop.
Day and night they never stop saying: "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty, who was, and is, and is to come." Revelations 4:8

1 week and 1 day after that, i was back in SCAC's sanctuary for sunday service. ok! lets get the worshiping thru singing started!
Pure and Holy Passion as call to worship... ok... they picked it. why not. lets go with it.
second song, Nothing But the Blood. communion sunday. appropriate enough. ok. next song.
"please be seated."
what? thats it? i was just getting started!
on to the sermon. Matthew 5:27-30. on purity. Pastor Tim's a great preacher if you want to study the Bible. not too sure about applicable. but definitely awesome for learning from the Word.
songs of response... Worthy is the Lamb. i was worshiping. didnt notice much about it. lyrics alone are powerful enough.
next song of response. The Stand. too fast. didn't build up enough. wrong chords. oh nos.. im being super picky about worship again! wrong chords? i dont think thats being picky. im a drummer and i dont do notes. but i noticed wrong chords. cant really call that picky now can you?
and then 3rd song. i dont remember. was too distracted by The Stand. something they did with a repeated acapella chorus. i only remember this because i usually spend at least one or two lines not singing if its acapella so i can hear the voices around me praising God. but i dont think i heard much. =(
"please be seated".
why is there such a drastic difference?
i dont get it. we all believe in the same God. i see the same ppl at hillsong concert worship night, at TC, etc and they worship differently. WHY? its not the worship team. how do i know this? at scac's english church retreat, we invited Tyndale's worship band to lead us in worship and the response from the congregation was the same as any given sunday.
and NO its not because scac is super conservative. because a few years back, we didnt 'look like the most boring person on the earth' as Chris Tomlin would put it (haha.. yes. he actually said that at Passion07! proof? click here! at about 30sec.). i know im not supposed to judge others cus for all i know, they ARE worshiping in their hearts. but really... i honestly cant retain it! and i cant be the only one who physically displays it when i get excited to worship... or can i?
maybe its not about being a fruitcake around non christians only. afterall, Ashley was forced to go to church when she was younger. she just simply didnt get it. until her Fruitcake roommate came along in her senior year and second semester. and thru a transformation over 14 days, she understood it! she finally got the message and thats when she was changed for the rest of her life. maybe this is where i need to be a Fruitcake. at SCAC. just being myself. being weird in the right ways. because I GET IT!! i understand!
when it was time for communion, pastor tim got up there and read out Psalm 22. i have no clue how that relates to communion. other than the first line from the first verse, which is what Jesus said when He was on the cross. but the moment he started reading, i was like 'whatttt... thats kinda how im feeling!' you know.. when you read something and force it to apply to your situation just because. so im like "yeah.. i kinda feel like that. ok.. maybe not to the extreme of lions tearing their prey.. but maybe a watered down version?"
then Psalm 22:22 just stuck out to me!
I will declare your name to my brothers;
in the congregation I will praise you.
BAM! theres the confirmation for me to be a Fruitcake at SCAC.



OH.. i remember now. one of the songs we sang was Beautiful One by Tim Hughes. i dont remember when we sang it now that i think about it. i definitely have the song orders mixed up. haha... maybe Nothing but the Blood was part of the response set.. which would make sense to flow into communion. and it was a part of The Stand that was sung acapella? i dont know... lol!

OHH and another thing. if you want the full story of Fruitcake (or at least good enough of a story to understand all this Fruitcake business, lemme know. i'll send it to you)

OHHH if you havent realized, i've been using "OH" instead of "PS" in this blog entry. haha...